See also:JOACHIM See also:BARRANDE (1799-1883)
, See also:Austrian geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at Saugues, Haute See also:Loire, on the 11th of See also:August 1799, and educated in the iN tole Polytechnique at See also:Paris
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Although he had received the training of an engineer, his first See also:appointment was that of See also:tutor to the duc de See also:Bordeaux (afterwards known as the See also:comte de See also:Chambord), See also:grandson of See also:Charles X., and when the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king abdicated in 183o, See also:Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to See also:England and See also:Scotland, and afterwards to See also:Prague
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Settling in that See also:city in 1831, he became occupied in See also:engineering See also:works, and his See also:attention was then attracted to the fossils from the See also:Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Bohemia
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The publication in 1839 of See also:Murchison's See also:Silurian See also:System incited Barrande to carry on systematic researches on the See also:equivalent strata in Bohemia
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For ten years (1840-1850) he made a detailed study of these rocks, engaging workmen specially to collect fossils, and in this way he obtained upwards of 3500 See also:species of See also:graptolites, See also:brachiopoda, See also:mollusca, See also:crustacea (particularly See also:trilobites) and fishes
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The first See also:volume of his See also:great See also:work, Systeme silurien du centre de la Bohtme (dealing with trilobites), appeared in 1852; and from that date until 1881, he issued twenty-one See also:quarto volumes of See also:text and plates
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Two other volumes were issued after his See also:death in 1887 and 1894
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It is estimated that he spent nearly £1o,000 on these works
.
In addition he published a large number of See also:separate papers
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In recognition of his important researches the See also:Geological Society of See also:London in 1855 awarded to him the See also:Wollaston See also:medal
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The See also:term Silurian was employed by Barrande, after Murchison, in a more comprehensive sense than was justified by subsequent knowledge
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Thus the Silurian rocks of Bohemia were divided into certain stages (A to II)— the two lowermost, A and B without fossils (Azoic), succeeded by the third See also:stage, C, which included the primordial See also:zone, since recognized as See also:part of the See also:Cambrian of See also:Sedgwick
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The See also:fourth stage (Stage D), the true lower Silurian, was described by Barrande as including isolated patches of strata with organic remains like those of the Upper Silurian
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These assemblages of fossils were designated " Colonies," and regarded as See also:evidence of the See also:early introduction into the See also:area of species from neighbouring districts, that became locally See also:extinct, and reappeared in later stages
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The See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of Barrande was questioned in 1854 by See also:Edward See also:Forbes, who pointed to the disturbances, overturns and crumplings in the older rocks as affording a more reasonable explanation of the occurrence of .strata with newer fossils amid those containing older ones
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Other geologists subsequently questioned the See also:doctrine of "Colonies." In 188o Dr J
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E
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Marr, from a See also:personal study in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, brought forward evidence to show that the repetitions of the fossiliferous strata on which the " Colonies " were based were due to faults
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The later stages of Barrande, F, G and H, have since been shown by Emanuel See also:Friedrich Heinrich See also:Kayser (b
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1845) to be Devonian
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Despite these modifications in the See also:original groupings of the strata, it is recognized that Barrande " made Bohemia classic ground for the study of the See also:oldest fossiliferous formations." He died at Frohsdorf on the 5th of See also:October 1883
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See "See also:Sketch of the See also:Life of See also:Joachim Barrande," Geol
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Mag
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(1883), p
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529 (with portrait)
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